Liver injury due to verapamil

Hepatogastroenterology. 1988 Aug;35(4):169-70.

Abstract

A 56-year-old female patient on verapamil for hypertension experienced two episodes of jaundice, pruritus and upper abdominal pain with transaminase elevated up to six-fold and alkaline phosphatase up to four-fold when inadvertently re-challenged with the drug. Liver biopsy showed marked cholestasis. Verapamil can occasionally cause mixed cytotoxic-cholestatic liver injury.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Chemical and Drug Induced Liver Injury / etiology*
  • Cholestasis, Intrahepatic / chemically induced*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypertension / drug therapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Verapamil / adverse effects*
  • Verapamil / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Verapamil